I'm a reservist. Several senior members of my squadron fought in Iraq and stormed Saddam's palace. One obtained a container of instant coffee, the best instant coffee he had ever tasted and has yet to find another like it in any UK supermarket. Another friend, now a retired WO1, found Saddam's Field Marshal rank slide. He considered taking it to the antique roadshow but kept it as a reminder of the war.
The chewing gum was brought in by an endless supply of private military companies, logistics contractors, and anyone else who could soak up all the money meant to actually rebuild the countries infrastructure.
I think it’s worth mentioning that Sadaams army was still reeling from the first gulf war, the events of the highway of death was conducted to limit Sadaams capabilities in future wars, this without a doubt played a big part in the coalitions success in the invasion Great Video!!
Also, Sadaam's paranoia limited cooperation between different branches of the Iraqi military. This meant the Army, the Republican Guard, and the Fellahin Sadaam all distrusted each other.
@Man77772 it's not an excuse it's fact. First Iraqs economy never recovered after the war with Iran. Then after the first gulf war Iraqs military couldn't rebuild because of sanctions. And like they said strikes like the highway of death as well as the constant air campaign between the two wars degraded Iraqi military capabilities further.
Both leaders lied and led a "coalition" into an unecessary war against an already weak and beaten leader costing the lives of mostly innocent civilians.
No evidence that they lied about anything, as this video makes explicitly clear. And lots of innocent civilians were killed by Saddam Hussein's régime, and would have continued to be killed had he not been overthrown.
@@45641560456405640563 Iraq disarmed its military and allowed UN inspectors in the country though. They literally did everything they could not to get attacked. So please elaborate on this so-called behaviour?
The public statement on Iraqi WMD and their delivery systems was laughable for anyone with knowledge of the region. But it must be remembered that Saddam had previously had chemical weapons and had used them against his own people. So it was reasonable that some might still exist. But they didn't.
Excuse for a war crimes invading of another country, no different then the others but for US it is forgiven and of course for Bush and Tony Blair that should be long time ago in prison.
I'd be interested for IWM to make a video about Britain's invasion of Iraq in 1941 -- a remarkable campaign & underrated in terms of its effects on the Second World War.
I was just a kid in third grade when this started, but I vividly remember all of the footage being shown on TV. It's interesting how dominating the presentation of the war was in the media of the time. Games focused on modern warfare instead of WWII started popping up, and often had a US/Coalition vs. "Middle East" aspect to them. Early TH-cam at the time was also filled with videos of American soldiers fooling around etc. Haven't given it a deep thought before, but a good portion of my childhood was spent consuming media related to this conflict. For better or for worse.
They went to Syria. I was in the north of Iraq in 2003, an iraqi rail road customs inspector told us shortly before the invasion he had a train under military guard that he was not allowed access to that went to Syria. He told us that was likely the chemical weapons. It makes sense some got missed since they did it at the last minute. Can't prove it, but I think they were there and the Iraqis with the help of some Russian assets got them out. Russia was sending them in violation of un resolutions.
@@kevinlandis5370definitely possible. I spent three years in Iraq but not starting till 05. I never saw stuff like that but we found all kinds of weird stuff like American money bagged up in walls of houses and there were American dudes in suburbans and suits that would show up at places doing whatever they do.
The winners write history / decide on the prosecutions. Should Bush & Blair be in gaol yes absolutely same as Trump for different reason. Not happening sadly.
Saddam was doomed either way. If he said he had WMD's the U.S. would invade. If he said he didn't have them he would be seen as weak by Iran. “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.” -Don Rumsfeld...we didn't know A LOT.
Rumsfeld has a lot to answer for because of the aftermath of the invasion. The sacking of Iraqi civil servants and security forces was so incompetent to this day it's hard to believe. Yes remove the leadership of those organisations but removing those working on the ground was insane. History could have been very different and will not judge us kindly.
Beating a third rate foe is not something you "beat your chest" about. With the exception of the Republic Guard the army was under trained and under equipped. The U.S. was technlogically superior in aircraft and aerial intelligence gathering. One young Iraqi soldier that was captured still wore his patent leather dancing shoes. He had been pulled off the dance floor, handed and uniform and gun, and sent to war. Some Iraqui soldiers surrendered to passing American helicopters.
I am astonished that I knew more at age 16 about Saddam Hussein's weapons situation than apparently the US government did, and all because I had followed the story and read the early reports made by Hans Blix. I used to drive my high school history and political science teacher nuts with this topic, particularly when the war started, as he was being fairly jingoistic about the whole invasion, but his tone changed soon enough.
@@Blastoice Who acquired oil? Oil exports from Iraq to the US fell after the invasion. If you look at the mandates awarded for oil drilling sites, none were given to the US oil majors.
Yeah but here's the difference: Ukraine is a democracy and is defending it's territory from senseless aggression and Poo-tin, Putler, Pooty-boy trying to TAKE Ukrainian land and say it's Russia. The USA did nothing like that. The USA wanted to take out Saddam who had cruelly, brutally ruled Iraq for 30 years and bring democracy to Iraq (and we succeeded). Our aims were true and pure, Russia's are selfish, imperial, and destructive. Ukraine is more democratic than Russia. That's all you need to know. So OF COURSE people are going to aid Ukraine, because it's the right thing to do. Whereas with Saddam's regime, we had seen for 30 years how he treated his neighbors...he attacked Israel. He attacked Iran. He gassed his own people. He subjugated the Shia populations. He invaded and annexed Kuwait. And so on. Name one time where Ukraine invaded its neighbor or attacked Russia.
That's criminal incompetence. Regardless of whenever the war was justified or not, complete lack of thinking about what's next is just inexcusable. I remember that when I heard about the idea of the invasion, it was obvious to me that there will be guerilla resistance and that IEDs will be used.
Sure, but they knew that also, but it was more about "what could be done to stop/prevent said thing"? They had plans for what to do next, just not plans that could actually stop it all.
@@brucepoole8552 No, but was responsible for Iraq failing to comply with the conditions set down by the victors of Desert Storm and constant niggling. Of course that was tolerated at the time. Until 9/11 meant the US wasn't in the mood to put up with it. Sucked to be Saddam at that point.
I m sorry to say but the result was that so many coalition soldiers and iraqians died for and that so called nuke arms or others doesn t exist anywhere in Iraq.
If they had faced the Iraqi Army from the pre Iran-Iraq War and sanctions... The US army would've faced 5 × more the number of casualties and losses ...
Maybe definitely not technology wise. After the Iran war Iraq had better equipment. But manpower wise yes the Iraqi army would of been more willing to fight had they not already been fighting for a decade.
I guess the bottom line is , Sadam might have been wicked but he was preferable to the Mullahs . He kept Iraq from their extreme laws and the chaos that inevitably ensued after his departure .
He absolutely did not keep Iraq from any sort of extreme law. Saddam had special mosques built in the 90s and subjugated the Shia populations and gassed the Kurds and subjugated them as well. He was not foreign to religious persecution at all. That's on top of all the other "typical" dictatorial nonsense he got up to like murdering and jailing journalists, politicians, artists, professors, and so on. And let's not mention the attacking of Israel, invasion of Iran, gassing and killing of Kurds, and invasion of Kuwait. The chaos that ensued after he was removed from power was natural and inevitable after a power vacuum like that was formed. There is no other way to remove a leader from power by external force. The civil war was going to happen due to the hundreds of years of hatred from Sunni and Shia Islam and because of the brutal rule while Saddam was in power, the Shia wanted revenge on the Sunni. Because the USA had sided with the Shia I believe since they were incredibly ANTI-Saddam as were the Kurdish specifically, the Sunni populations started the insurgency to get back at the USA AND their Shia opponents who now had equal footing with them.
Why does every other video uploaded here have the title and thumbnail changed after they are published? Sometimes multiple times (eg. F15 video). Bizarre.
Before the first Gulf War Army Chief of Staff Colin Powell made sure there was a clear understanding of the goals and exit strategy. In the second Gulf War Bush and Cheney, in their towering arrogance, ignored both.
was the late Colin powel not a liar ??? the main source was " curveball" living in Geremny and he was telling ghost stories .. Still the USA pressed on the comit the war , war on wrong grounds if you tell my .. Thank God not of our troops were send in ( Duch ) but we help with logistics .. We went later to Afgahistan after the Aussie but and still on these day ..iam waiting to a Dutch "Breaker Morant " from that time ..
Everything was going great for the Marine Corps infantry, but everything changed when the army took control over holding hard fought cities and land. They choked and slowed the offensive.
America feared the proposal by Iraq to other Arab States that payment for Oil could not be made in American Dollars. This change would completely undermine effective American control of the world banking system.
Very Briefed And Summarized Ideas: he fallen so fast because he was brought to power to be toppled at the right time, what is very temporarily called the united states of america needed an enemy tailored very carefully to achieve a set of goals and objectives, and Iraq was the ideal place from a geo-strategic and religious or biblical point of views, and one of the strategic reasons is to break its military machine’s ongoing jinx since the end of World War II, because Since that confrontation, the military machine of what is very temporarily called the united states of america had not been able to achieve any success, (with the exceptions panama and Grenada) the rest was at best was a very costly draw and all those failures were against newly emerging states DPRK and Vietnam for example in the latter case what is very temporarily called the united states of america had to fight double the time it spend it in WW2 utilizing maybe 10 time the amount of firepower without being able to defeat its enemy made of farmers and fisherman's, so it was very important for what is very temporarily called the united states of america to win this carefully tailored tiger of paper, other strategic reason for fighting this war was to facilities the collapse of the Warsaw pact and the Soviet Union, which after few years of drying was struggling to feed his own population, so any attempt to reverse the course of the events would had been meet with decisive military action of very effective and efficient war machine ,and from strategic military points of view in the process it was necessary to experiment with the post-Vietnam army, and with it to testing the validity of the new combat concept that was comprehensive development, upgrading and updating of the nasty germans airspace blitzkrieg, other strategic reason the war was a declaration of ending the cold war and with it the victory of a civilization over the other... sadam regime was finished from 1991, and between 1991and 2003, there was a process of studying the target from inside, because until that defeat Iraqi and to large extent (and certainly not absolutely) the bureaucratic apparatus of the Iraqi state was immune to external intrusions and thus in the process breaking the Iraqi population socially and psychologically preparing them to accept the occupiers... be tthe part of the same countries that brought him down, this is a puppet and a scarecrow that was manufactured to justify military intervention and then the occupation of Iraq. It is just a bubble inflated by the Western colonial powers and then... Taliban, which had seized power in Afghanistan in 1996 only to lose it in 2001, succeeded in inflicting a strategic defeat on what is very temporarily called the united states of america and with it the anglish island of antichrist and all nato countries in what is become known as america longest ever war after losing 20 trillion and wasting 20 years they left Afghanistan, Without any concession by the Taliban on the issue of Al-Qaeda... although Taliban was able to finish this war much earlier if they had decided to globalized the war, Pursuing the targets of what is very temporarily called the united states of america and its allies inside the new world and around the world and in its nations. do not think that it is a difficult task, the world is huge, and the resources of what is very temporarily called the united states of america supported by its allies did not even succeed in curbing the Taliban in Afghanistan, not to mention across the world the issue was their was no decision, and in my opinion, it was a wrong decision, because the what is very temporary united states of america could have been forced to withdraw early if the war on terrorism had been globalized by the Taliban and its allies, the occupation should had liberated the will and resources of to attack the western world everywhere and anywhere, then the economic collapse would had been much earlier because all the economic targets inside what is very temporarily called the united states of america and the english island of antichrist and the rest of the nato members is crisp targets no country could survive suspending the public life and stopping the economic activities... regarding Iraq case what is very temporarily called the united states of america, the english island of antichrist and zionist entity needs justifications and this puppet brought to power to prepare the right conditions internally and externally to occupying Iraq...
the title itself is propaganda and colonial rhetoric : the war was against Iraq ,not against Saddam , and was aimed to occupy Baghdad and the entire country , not " to end his 30 year reign ".
War is always terrible, but can you imagine Saddam Hussein still in charge of Iraq. Maybe we did the one step forward and two steps back thing. We gained something and we lost something!
@todub781 if he remained there, he'd have likely just kept Iran in check whilst being an otherwise benign irritant. We know now for certain there was no WMD, so he couldn't really help al Qaeda. There would have also never been any ISIS. After his passing, it is unlikely either of his sons could have held power the way he did for long. His daughter, Raghad, though, does have some good political instincts.
If the US invaded or not, Saddam was destined to lose power one day and the country would fall into chaos similar too Syria as Iraq was a tiking civil war time bomb.
@@tetraxis3011 What mystical knowledge do you have that we don't have? Saddam had brutally kept the Shia population down and repressed. What do you think would have been different after he left power?
9/11 - WMD - Libya - ISIS Everything is linked if you find the common beneficiary? Who got the maximum benefit from 9/11? Whose existence was threatened by Saddam? Who drafted the false report on WMD? Who caused unrest in Libya and Syria? Whom ISIS never touched despite being close to border? A genocidal curse expelled from Europe to the middle east.
And replaced by who? Bush Snr's government publicly stated that they didn't want to remove Saddam because there wasn't anyone strong enough to take over. They were worried that it would become a fundamentalist state like Iran. What changed between the two Bushes? Nothing. Dubya took out Saddam and now look at the area. The USA is stuck there. And it was all for oil. They knew there were no WMDs. It was a smokescreen to justify the invasion. Then when it was obvious that there were no WMDs they tried tying Saddam to terrorism. That failed. Even the Orange Buffoon during his 2016 campaign admitted that Saddam was fighting terrorism in Iraq. He wasn't a Jihadist. He just wanted power.
There is reasonable evidence that WMD's were in Iraq, but were moved to Syria before/during the invasion. Museums/Historians should know better than to make such definitive statements as made here in the first 2 minutes.
@killerbadger6702 'Argument from Authority' doesn't outweigh photographic and human intel. Btw, I'm not claiming that there definitively were WMDs, just pointing out that they shouldnt be claiming definitively that there weren't. A better statement would be something like: "They believed that there were WMDs, but it hasnt been established that there were."
Huh? Even Colin Powell said Iraq didn’t have WMDs. Do you know something that the guy who pitched the false idea to the U.N. does not? Maybe you can share the location of the holy grail next 😂
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I'm a reservist. Several senior members of my squadron fought in Iraq and stormed Saddam's palace. One obtained a container of instant coffee, the best instant coffee he had ever tasted and has yet to find another like it in any UK supermarket. Another friend, now a retired WO1, found Saddam's Field Marshal rank slide. He considered taking it to the antique roadshow but kept it as a reminder of the war.
So they looted
@koala-ytt does it count as looting when it is non violent and against an enemy military property?
@@monarchist1838 how many children did you kill?
@@koala-ytt Liberated, with the rest of the population. As was the case when Iraq lost it's King.
@@koala-ytt Yeah, that's not looting 🤦🏻♂️
They kicked a** and chewed bubblegum, then later realized chewing bubblegum was not a viable step two
The chewing gum was brought in by an endless supply of private military companies, logistics contractors, and anyone else who could soak up all the money meant to actually rebuild the countries infrastructure.
I think it’s worth mentioning that Sadaams army was still reeling from the first gulf war, the events of the highway of death was conducted to limit Sadaams capabilities in future wars, this without a doubt played a big part in the coalitions success in the invasion
Great Video!!
And even from the iraq iran war which devesteaded iraqi economy
Let's also not forget that not a SINGLE WMD was ever found ! Both Bush and Blair are war criminals.
Also, Sadaam's paranoia limited cooperation between different branches of the Iraqi military. This meant the Army, the Republican Guard, and the Fellahin Sadaam all distrusted each other.
@@T_money1738 The gulf war was over a decade ago. No way that’s a viable excuse
@Man77772 it's not an excuse it's fact. First Iraqs economy never recovered after the war with Iran. Then after the first gulf war Iraqs military couldn't rebuild because of sanctions. And like they said strikes like the highway of death as well as the constant air campaign between the two wars degraded Iraqi military capabilities further.
Both leaders lied and led a "coalition" into an unecessary war against an already weak and beaten leader costing the lives of mostly innocent civilians.
If it feels clever to pretend to think so......
One of these is not like the other.
No evidence that they lied about anything, as this video makes explicitly clear. And lots of innocent civilians were killed by Saddam Hussein's régime, and would have continued to be killed had he not been overthrown.
And you think Saddam wouldn't have rebuilt it's forces and continue to send Child soldier to fight against Iran and it's neighbors?
The coalition all agreed that Iraq needed a regime change and that they suspected saddam may had possible connections to al qaeda
Yes won the war but lost the peace...
You mean won the battle lost the war more like
The lost the Iraq and Afghan War
@@dionjewitt1816 that works too.
Normal when politicians dictate everything to the military
Q) How many nations has Iraq invaded since?
A) Zero.
There was never any peace to begin with under Saddam's Stalinist dictatorship.
A coalition of super power nations against a sovereign nation crippled by embargoes and having a weak army...yeah, its definitely a "cakewalk" tour
Perhaps Iraq should have moderated the behaviour that got their butts kicked?
@@45641560456405640563 Iraq disarmed its military and allowed UN inspectors in the country though. They literally did everything they could not to get attacked. So please elaborate on this so-called behaviour?
The public statement on Iraqi WMD and their delivery systems was laughable for anyone with knowledge of the region. But it must be remembered that Saddam had previously had chemical weapons and had used them against his own people. So it was reasonable that some might still exist. But they didn't.
@@timgosling6189 Osirak was no joke. Ask the IDF
Excuse for a war crimes invading of another country, no different then the others but for US it is forgiven and of course for Bush and Tony Blair that should be long time ago in prison.
@@The_kneidlach_engineer True.
Actually, there were a significant number of chemical artillery shells discovered during the American occupation of Iraq.
You hit it on the head. Intelligence is a guessing game about probabilities - it was impossible to assume Saddam wouldn't have a clandestine program
I'd be interested for IWM to make a video about Britain's invasion of Iraq in 1941 -- a remarkable campaign & underrated in terms of its effects on the Second World War.
I was just a kid in third grade when this started, but I vividly remember all of the footage being shown on TV. It's interesting how dominating the presentation of the war was in the media of the time. Games focused on modern warfare instead of WWII started popping up, and often had a US/Coalition vs. "Middle East" aspect to them. Early TH-cam at the time was also filled with videos of American soldiers fooling around etc. Haven't given it a deep thought before, but a good portion of my childhood was spent consuming media related to this conflict. For better or for worse.
Thank you for not ignoring the flaws and errors in the invasion and showing a transparent picture of the whole operation.
Are we still looking for the WMD's? Lol.
@@davidnorton5887 Osirak was no joke
They went to Syria. I was in the north of Iraq in 2003, an iraqi rail road customs inspector told us shortly before the invasion he had a train under military guard that he was not allowed access to that went to Syria. He told us that was likely the chemical weapons. It makes sense some got missed since they did it at the last minute. Can't prove it, but I think they were there and the Iraqis with the help of some Russian assets got them out. Russia was sending them in violation of un resolutions.
@@kevinlandis5370definitely possible. I spent three years in Iraq but not starting till 05. I never saw stuff like that but we found all kinds of weird stuff like American money bagged up in walls of houses and there were American dudes in suburbans and suits that would show up at places doing whatever they do.
Are we the baddies?
Yes, I'm afraid we are...
@@the51project No. You're not. A dictator was ousted. Operation Anfal and Halabja are remembered
Who are "we"? Are you speaking on behalf of the Ba'athists and the criminal and genocidal Saddam dictatorship?
There were 2 babies in this war.
Is somebody gonna do something about it? Absolutely not
@@the51project No.
How Tony Blair escaped prosecution is beyond me...
Because Bush and Blair are part of the elite
The winners write history / decide on the prosecutions. Should Bush & Blair be in gaol yes absolutely same as Trump for different reason. Not happening sadly.
History is written by the Victor
Saddam was doomed either way. If he said he had WMD's the U.S. would invade. If he said he didn't have them he would be seen as weak by Iran. “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.” -Don Rumsfeld...we didn't know A LOT.
Rumsfeld has a lot to answer for because of the aftermath of the invasion. The sacking of Iraqi civil servants and security forces was so incompetent to this day it's hard to believe. Yes remove the leadership of those organisations but removing those working on the ground was insane. History could have been very different and will not judge us kindly.
Rumsfeld passed away awhile back.
Beating a third rate foe is not something you "beat your chest" about. With the exception of the Republic Guard the army was under trained and under equipped. The U.S. was technlogically superior in aircraft and aerial intelligence gathering. One young Iraqi soldier that was captured still wore his patent leather dancing shoes. He had been pulled off the dance floor, handed and uniform and gun, and sent to war. Some Iraqui soldiers surrendered to passing American helicopters.
Bush and Blair should be in prison for this.
Throw in Johnny "Brown Nose" Howard, Australian PM at the time.
Blair has a lot to answer for. Horrible individual.
@@michaelgurd7477 Like bringing Iraq democracy?
@@wowomah6194 As if Iraq is a functioning democracy today. Saddam was a dictator and a criminal. But the coalition has no business invading Iraq.
Presidential immunity
Amazing explanation and documentary also intelligent historians, well done IWM ! 🙌
I am astonished that I knew more at age 16 about Saddam Hussein's weapons situation than apparently the US government did, and all because I had followed the story and read the early reports made by Hans Blix. I used to drive my high school history and political science teacher nuts with this topic, particularly when the war started, as he was being fairly jingoistic about the whole invasion, but his tone changed soon enough.
Yeah, invading Iraq wasn't a good idea now wasn't it?
Saddam gone. Iraq no longer a threat. Noice.
And yet leaving it in the sole control and ownership of a mad and genocidal dictator was not a good idea either.
It was, they acquired oil
@@Blastoice Who acquired oil? Oil exports from Iraq to the US fell after the invasion. If you look at the mandates awarded for oil drilling sites, none were given to the US oil majors.
@@cchj768 yeah, creating islamic extremist group that murders innocents in the end was also not a good idea.
I thought the thumb nail as presented on my phone was some kind of weird Star Destroyer.... 😅
You failed to mention what actually moved the needle for the Americans. Toby Keith released and album called "Shockin' Y'all" and the rest was history
Well the invasion was successful because of two reasons
1-us didn't fight the war alone
2- nobody give iraq aid like Ukraine
Do you think any nation on earth eould stand a conventional war against the US? Lol come on
@bolsa3136 bro forget about your conventional might, if you want to fight any war don't go with anybody
Yeah but here's the difference: Ukraine is a democracy and is defending it's territory from senseless aggression and Poo-tin, Putler, Pooty-boy trying to TAKE Ukrainian land and say it's Russia. The USA did nothing like that. The USA wanted to take out Saddam who had cruelly, brutally ruled Iraq for 30 years and bring democracy to Iraq (and we succeeded). Our aims were true and pure, Russia's are selfish, imperial, and destructive. Ukraine is more democratic than Russia. That's all you need to know.
So OF COURSE people are going to aid Ukraine, because it's the right thing to do. Whereas with Saddam's regime, we had seen for 30 years how he treated his neighbors...he attacked Israel. He attacked Iran. He gassed his own people. He subjugated the Shia populations. He invaded and annexed Kuwait. And so on. Name one time where Ukraine invaded its neighbor or attacked Russia.
At 12:01AM March 19th I crossed into Iraq.
Thank you for your service. Nothing else to say on the subject beyond that!
@@doberski6855what service ? 🤣
I landed in Iraq with other SOF in mid-June 2014. Some of the first airstrikes that were televised, were set up by other SOF JTACs - and myself.
@@LordBaron1 The service to kill bad guys?
@@doberski6855what tf did we accomplish? 😂
That's criminal incompetence. Regardless of whenever the war was justified or not, complete lack of thinking about what's next is just inexcusable. I remember that when I heard about the idea of the invasion, it was obvious to me that there will be guerilla resistance and that IEDs will be used.
Sure, but they knew that also, but it was more about "what could be done to stop/prevent said thing"? They had plans for what to do next, just not plans that could actually stop it all.
.... basically , got rid of the mad dog , that kept the other mad dogs in-check .........
Good information 😊
Saddam was responsible for 9-11 right? Right? Oh dang it
No. But the invasions of Iran and Kuwait were things.
Nah don't act like he wasn't evil
@ evil as hell no doubt but get to the point, was he involved in 9/11?
@@brucepoole8552 No, but was responsible for Iraq failing to comply with the conditions set down by the victors of Desert Storm and constant niggling. Of course that was tolerated at the time. Until 9/11 meant the US wasn't in the mood to put up with it.
Sucked to be Saddam at that point.
@@brucepoole8552 Probably
And now the same war drum is playing towards iran but iran will have Russia and China supporting them that's why US is working out is it worth it
I m sorry to say but the result was that so many coalition soldiers and iraqians died for and that so called nuke arms or others doesn t exist anywhere in Iraq.
Iraqians 🤣
It's Iraqis.
Waiting for video on bangel famine
If they had faced the Iraqi Army from the pre Iran-Iraq War and sanctions... The US army would've faced
5 × more the number of casualties and losses ...
Maybe definitely not technology wise. After the Iran war Iraq had better equipment. But manpower wise yes the Iraqi army would of been more willing to fight had they not already been fighting for a decade.
That not true at all. Before Iraq Iran war Iraqi army were small and weak. Equipment and manpower growth happen after war started.
Because his army had no desire to fight for the sick, sadistic, brutal dictator that he was.
I guess the bottom line is , Sadam might have been wicked but he was preferable to the Mullahs . He kept Iraq from their extreme laws and the chaos that inevitably ensued after his departure .
He absolutely did not keep Iraq from any sort of extreme law. Saddam had special mosques built in the 90s and subjugated the Shia populations and gassed the Kurds and subjugated them as well. He was not foreign to religious persecution at all. That's on top of all the other "typical" dictatorial nonsense he got up to like murdering and jailing journalists, politicians, artists, professors, and so on. And let's not mention the attacking of Israel, invasion of Iran, gassing and killing of Kurds, and invasion of Kuwait.
The chaos that ensued after he was removed from power was natural and inevitable after a power vacuum like that was formed. There is no other way to remove a leader from power by external force. The civil war was going to happen due to the hundreds of years of hatred from Sunni and Shia Islam and because of the brutal rule while Saddam was in power, the Shia wanted revenge on the Sunni. Because the USA had sided with the Shia I believe since they were incredibly ANTI-Saddam as were the Kurdish specifically, the Sunni populations started the insurgency to get back at the USA AND their Shia opponents who now had equal footing with them.
Why does every other video uploaded here have the title and thumbnail changed after they are published? Sometimes multiple times (eg. F15 video). Bizarre.
the military done its thing very well, the people who sent them, well what can you say lied, misled, sold out. thank you IWM, well presented.
What a WASTE of human life on both sides. He would’ve been better off alive today. Great video
Before the first Gulf War Army Chief of Staff Colin Powell made sure there was a clear understanding of the goals and exit strategy. In the second Gulf War Bush and Cheney, in their towering arrogance, ignored both.
Colin Powell let himself be deceived and used. He should've resigned. A disgrace
There were no nukes but there were chemical weapons
Least they got the oil....
The US was very well placed to take on a conventional army in 2003.
[Iran and Israel liked this video]
Let me guess, 80% of those at 3:16 are people who now fill the streets shouting "From the river to the sea..."
was the late Colin powel not a liar ???
the main source was " curveball" living in Geremny and he was telling ghost stories ..
Still the USA pressed on the comit the war , war on wrong grounds if you tell my ..
Thank God not of our troops were send in ( Duch ) but we help with logistics ..
We went later to Afgahistan after the Aussie but and still on these day ..iam waiting to a Dutch "Breaker Morant " from that time ..
How was Taskforce Viking inserted to the far Northwest of Iraq?
Couldn't have Saddam Hussein moving away from the Petrodollar could they, Everything else surrounding this Conflict stems from that.
Best to stick to reality.
Lmao no, no it doesn't.
You can defend this devil in hell.
Gaddafi suffered the same fate.
No it's actually about Saddam being a fascist that invades countries
Video about Romania next?
Why
Everything was going great for the Marine Corps infantry, but everything changed when the army took control over holding hard fought cities and land. They choked and slowed the offensive.
asking if they used the macarena-slowed remix as a background song during invasion…😂
Didnt ansar al islam actually have chemical weapons production facilities in the mountains, though?
Yep and we never forgave the neo cons for that over here. We had no business there. America first now. No more pointless wars.
Politics 😢
4:03 Where have I heard that before?
Not a popular war these days
He was fighting the USA. 😅 I think, his army actually overperformed.
Did he need defeating or was in a plan to make more money ?
lol yeahhhhh defeated the much vaunted super power Iraq stupidity at its finest
“mission accomplished” sure…
America feared the proposal by Iraq to other Arab States that payment for Oil could not be made in American Dollars. This change would completely undermine effective American control of the world banking system.
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he fallen so fast because he was brought to power to be toppled at the right time, what is very temporarily called the united states of america needed an enemy tailored very carefully to achieve a set of goals and objectives, and Iraq was the ideal place from a geo-strategic and religious or biblical point of views, and one of the strategic reasons is to break its military machine’s ongoing jinx since the end of World War II, because Since that confrontation, the military machine of what is very temporarily called the united states of america had not been able to achieve any success, (with the exceptions panama and Grenada) the rest was at best was a very costly draw and all those failures were against newly emerging states DPRK and Vietnam for example in the latter case what is very temporarily called the united states of america had to fight double the time it spend it in WW2 utilizing maybe 10 time the amount of firepower without being able to defeat its enemy made of farmers and fisherman's, so it was very important for what is very temporarily called the united states of america to win this carefully tailored tiger of paper, other strategic reason for fighting this war was to facilities the collapse of the Warsaw pact and the Soviet Union, which after few years of drying was struggling to feed his own population, so any attempt to reverse the course of the events would had been meet with decisive military action of very effective and efficient war machine ,and from strategic military points of view in the process it was necessary to experiment with the post-Vietnam army, and with it to testing the validity of the new combat concept that was comprehensive development, upgrading and updating of the nasty germans airspace blitzkrieg, other strategic reason the war was a declaration of ending the cold war and with it the victory of a civilization over the other...
sadam regime was finished from 1991, and between 1991and 2003, there was a process of studying the target from inside, because until that defeat Iraqi and to large extent (and certainly not absolutely) the bureaucratic apparatus of the Iraqi state was immune to external intrusions and thus in the process breaking the Iraqi population socially and psychologically preparing them to accept the occupiers... be tthe part of the same countries that brought him down, this is a puppet and a scarecrow that was manufactured to justify military intervention and then the occupation of Iraq. It is just a bubble inflated by the Western colonial powers and then...
Taliban, which had seized power in Afghanistan in 1996 only to lose it in 2001, succeeded in inflicting a strategic defeat on what is very temporarily called the united states of america and with it the anglish island of antichrist and all nato countries in what is become known as america longest ever war after losing 20 trillion and wasting 20 years they left Afghanistan, Without any concession by the Taliban on the issue of Al-Qaeda...
although Taliban was able to finish this war much earlier if they had decided to globalized the war, Pursuing the targets of what is very temporarily called the united states of america and its allies inside the new world and around the world and in its nations. do not think that it is a difficult task, the world is huge, and the resources of what is very temporarily called the united states of america supported by its allies did not even succeed in curbing the Taliban in Afghanistan, not to mention across the world the issue was their was no decision, and in my opinion, it was a wrong decision, because the what is very temporary united states of america could have been forced to withdraw early if the war on terrorism had been globalized by the Taliban and its allies, the occupation should had liberated the will and resources of to attack the western world everywhere and anywhere, then the economic collapse would had been much earlier because all the economic targets inside what is very temporarily called the united states of america and the english island of antichrist and the rest of the nato members is crisp targets no country could survive suspending the public life and stopping the economic activities...
regarding Iraq case what is very temporarily called the united states of america, the english island of antichrist and zionist entity needs justifications and this puppet brought to power to prepare the right conditions internally and externally to occupying Iraq...
Literally half of the country jumped him? Plus Kurds and Shias betrayed him 2/3 of Iraq betrayed him
Loooool "betrayed him" 😂😂😂
You expected them to side with their oppressor? 😂😂😂
@@beri4138 I expect them not to side with foreign invaders?
the title itself is propaganda and colonial rhetoric : the war was against Iraq ,not against Saddam , and was aimed to occupy Baghdad and the entire country , not " to end his 30 year reign ".
What’s that? It was an imperialist war to snatch the countries oil resources? No! Never!
Oy vey, muh colonialism
"Mission accomplished" !
The kuwaiti's were drilling sideways and stealing the iraqi's oil. 🙄
And that excuses a full blown invasion? 🙄
Coalation of superpowers vs a sole nation crippled with embargos and weak army, the f*ck do you expect???
Vader helmets lol
west won the war, but after 20+ years no peace achieve. people's living standart is it better then or now?
They shouldn't have done that.
War is always terrible, but can you imagine Saddam Hussein still in charge of Iraq. Maybe we did the one step forward and two steps back thing. We gained something and we lost something!
It did destabilise the region because there was a balance of power with 4 or so competing foes. Might have been better for him to stay in power.
@todub781 if he remained there, he'd have likely just kept Iran in check whilst being an otherwise benign irritant. We know now for certain there was no WMD, so he couldn't really help al Qaeda. There would have also never been any ISIS. After his passing, it is unlikely either of his sons could have held power the way he did for long. His daughter, Raghad, though, does have some good political instincts.
Interesting
If the US invaded or not, Saddam was destined to lose power one day and the country would fall into chaos similar too Syria as Iraq was a tiking civil war time bomb.
It wouldn’t be the disaster that the invasion was
@@tetraxis3011 What mystical knowledge do you have that we don't have? Saddam had brutally kept the Shia population down and repressed. What do you think would have been different after he left power?
another illegal war😏
USA
The days before tank destroyer rockets and drones. Tanks are losing their place on the battlefield.
Vrooooom
On trial ....NOW
Saddam was put on trial. And sentenced to death. Keep up.
9/11 - WMD - Libya - ISIS
Everything is linked if you find the common beneficiary?
Who got the maximum benefit from 9/11?
Whose existence was threatened by Saddam?
Who drafted the false report on WMD?
Who caused unrest in Libya and Syria?
Whom ISIS never touched despite being close to border?
A genocidal curse expelled from Europe to the middle east.
saddam had to be removed
@@Mohul06 well said
And replaced by who? Bush Snr's government publicly stated that they didn't want to remove Saddam because there wasn't anyone strong enough to take over. They were worried that it would become a fundamentalist state like Iran. What changed between the two Bushes? Nothing. Dubya took out Saddam and now look at the area. The USA is stuck there. And it was all for oil. They knew there were no WMDs. It was a smokescreen to justify the invasion. Then when it was obvious that there were no WMDs they tried tying Saddam to terrorism. That failed. Even the Orange Buffoon during his 2016 campaign admitted that Saddam was fighting terrorism in Iraq. He wasn't a Jihadist. He just wanted power.
Not really. The result was worse.
Of course he had womd,, he used them ,, sad civilians had to die ,, and soldiers of all nations
There is reasonable evidence that WMD's were in Iraq, but were moved to Syria before/during the invasion. Museums/Historians should know better than to make such definitive statements as made here in the first 2 minutes.
Hmm the evidence is largely circumstantial and speculative, with no definitive proof, think they know better than you bud
@killerbadger6702 'Argument from Authority' doesn't outweigh photographic and human intel.
Btw, I'm not claiming that there definitively were WMDs, just pointing out that they shouldnt be claiming definitively that there weren't.
A better statement would be something like: "They believed that there were WMDs, but it hasnt been established that there were."
Huh? Even Colin Powell said Iraq didn’t have WMDs. Do you know something that the guy who pitched the false idea to the U.N. does not? Maybe you can share the location of the holy grail next 😂
seriously ?your post is the only evidence am afraid
North korea has WMDs too and can threaten korea .
Iran has WMDs ,Pakistan has WMDs ,why not attacking it then.@@jamyers1971
The Bible says in Genesis 12.3 that whoever curses Israel is cursed Saddam attached Israel and it sealed his fate
Thunder Run 2003! Dammit, does it get any more badass than that?! Ok, maybe 73 Easting.
if the Iraqis had drones, it would have been different.
Has American Won any wars since WW2?
By my count they won a couple minor ones in the Gulf
But they lost
Korea
Vietnam
Somalia
Iraq
Afghanistan
Hi putin
@@dionjewitt1816 The real question is, has America ALLOWED its military to win any wars since WWII - the answer is no.
They didn't loose the war in Somalia 😅
Also, they didn't loose the war in Korea, since the war is technically still going
@@Scalabrio but we LOST SOMALIA. so we lost the war.
Illegal war